Woman files suit against Culver's

Says restaurant failed to properly mark glass panel

10:29 PM,
Jun. 11, 2013

Written by

Josh O?Leary
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

A woman who says she was severely injured when she walked into a glass panel at Culver's restaurant in Coralville is suing the restaurant for physical and emotional trauma.

Mary T. McCarthy, of Chicago, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Johnson County District Court alleging the restaurant failed to properly mark the glass panel.

McCarthy says in the lawsuit that on Dec. 27, 2011, she was a customer at the restaurant, at 2529 Heartland Place, when she attempted to walk through what she believed to be an opening next to an exit door. McCarthy dislocated her jaw, broke her nose, tore a rotator cuff and ...